ROGER4314
Been Called "Flash" Since I Was A Kid!
The movie "12 Years A Slave" came and went quickly at our local theater and I missed it! Recently, it has been nominated for numerous awards so it returned to give us another opportunity to see it.
Today dawned as a drizzly, gloomy and cold day. My little dog Jake and I have had some cabin fever so I decided to get out, see a flick and enjoy getting out of the house. Jake just got treats, and I got the movie. He won.
The movie begins in 1841 and features our star who is a free black man living well in the Washington DC area. He is kidnapped by brutal bastards who chain, beat and degrade him in every possible way. More free blacks are kidnapped and finally they're shipped south to be sold. They are a sorry lot who barely survive the journey.
Without going into detail, the flick shows their life in the southern plantations and the brutal reality of being a slave in the south. It is a violent, disgusting, degrading, hard and joyless life.
You can fill in the blanks but as is my practice, I'll tell you how this movie made me feel and what I learned.
I KNOW that slavery was tough. I know life was hard, unjust and the horrors of being taken from your family, sold like property and worked like an animal are all beyond imagination.
But this was a movie and this is a movie review. So that's what I'll do..............
Almost every white man was portrayed as a drunken, lying, brutal, cheating, bastard with no morals, ethics, or compassion of any kind.
Blacks (N word used here) are compassionate, feeling, caring people who looked after each other and tried their best to survive. They had little but shared what they had.
I suppose that was done to make White American viewers feel guilty for the horrors forced upon African Americans in the pre Civil War South. I won't accept that guilt! My ancestors were in Europe in 1841 and had nothing to do with that mess!
The color of MY skin was damned in this movie and I got tired of seeing my image being portrayed as total scum. I hated that!
The reason I go to movies is to see and learn new things. Sometimes, I just want to get out of the house and do something for fun!
This movie is nearly 2 hours long and almost from the start is the most negative film I have ever seen! This flick is a major bummer and if you are in a great mood, you'll see that evaporate pronto.
If you like seeing people who look like you, acting as brutally as Human Beings can be, then this is your movie! If you like seeing new methods of torture, disrespect and barbarism, then this is your flick!
Why would anyone want to pay good money to see a movie that is 99% negative? There's no rooting for the good guys or triumph over adversity here. No one won.........they simply survived. Others did not.
The end is just like that............OK, the brutal movie is over. What a waste of a powerful story! You will leave the theater numb and glad that it's over.
This is no "Roots" or "The Color Purple." This movie is sick.
The movie was well filmed in scenic southern settings. The "N" word is plentiful. I do not use that word and it made me sick to hear so much of it. There was brief nudity and scenes of intercourse. Brutality was the standard from one end of the film to the other. Horrible beatings, lynchings and rape are standard fare.
I gave the movie a "D". I liked the period costumes, settings, plantations and seeing how people in the 1840's lived.
If you want entertainment, or something to lift your spirits, do NOT go to see this flick!
Flash
Today dawned as a drizzly, gloomy and cold day. My little dog Jake and I have had some cabin fever so I decided to get out, see a flick and enjoy getting out of the house. Jake just got treats, and I got the movie. He won.
The movie begins in 1841 and features our star who is a free black man living well in the Washington DC area. He is kidnapped by brutal bastards who chain, beat and degrade him in every possible way. More free blacks are kidnapped and finally they're shipped south to be sold. They are a sorry lot who barely survive the journey.
Without going into detail, the flick shows their life in the southern plantations and the brutal reality of being a slave in the south. It is a violent, disgusting, degrading, hard and joyless life.
You can fill in the blanks but as is my practice, I'll tell you how this movie made me feel and what I learned.
I KNOW that slavery was tough. I know life was hard, unjust and the horrors of being taken from your family, sold like property and worked like an animal are all beyond imagination.
But this was a movie and this is a movie review. So that's what I'll do..............
Almost every white man was portrayed as a drunken, lying, brutal, cheating, bastard with no morals, ethics, or compassion of any kind.
Blacks (N word used here) are compassionate, feeling, caring people who looked after each other and tried their best to survive. They had little but shared what they had.
I suppose that was done to make White American viewers feel guilty for the horrors forced upon African Americans in the pre Civil War South. I won't accept that guilt! My ancestors were in Europe in 1841 and had nothing to do with that mess!
The color of MY skin was damned in this movie and I got tired of seeing my image being portrayed as total scum. I hated that!
The reason I go to movies is to see and learn new things. Sometimes, I just want to get out of the house and do something for fun!
This movie is nearly 2 hours long and almost from the start is the most negative film I have ever seen! This flick is a major bummer and if you are in a great mood, you'll see that evaporate pronto.
If you like seeing people who look like you, acting as brutally as Human Beings can be, then this is your movie! If you like seeing new methods of torture, disrespect and barbarism, then this is your flick!
Why would anyone want to pay good money to see a movie that is 99% negative? There's no rooting for the good guys or triumph over adversity here. No one won.........they simply survived. Others did not.
The end is just like that............OK, the brutal movie is over. What a waste of a powerful story! You will leave the theater numb and glad that it's over.
This is no "Roots" or "The Color Purple." This movie is sick.
The movie was well filmed in scenic southern settings. The "N" word is plentiful. I do not use that word and it made me sick to hear so much of it. There was brief nudity and scenes of intercourse. Brutality was the standard from one end of the film to the other. Horrible beatings, lynchings and rape are standard fare.
I gave the movie a "D". I liked the period costumes, settings, plantations and seeing how people in the 1840's lived.
If you want entertainment, or something to lift your spirits, do NOT go to see this flick!
Flash
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